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A Sicilian Man (Sciascia) Adam Lyndon Joffe Books Ltd FF|FB|FFP Paperback 2023 a body washing up inIn 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy's history took place in Sicily. The maxi processo saw 471 men and 4 women take the stand, accused of kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and many thousands of murders. Sitting in the galley was Leonardo Sciascia. One of the greatest European writers of the twentieth century, he had published the first Mafia novel, 'The Day of the Owl', and was widely seen by Italians as a true moral figure in a country